Movies about famous women. Based on real biographies. Politicians, scientists, Actresses, singers.

A historical drama set in Roman Egypt, concerning a slave who turns to the rising tide of Christianity in the hope of pursuing freedom while falling in love with his mistress, the philosophy and mathematics professor Hypatia of Alexandria.

Janet Frame was a brilliant child who, as a teen, was misdiagnosed with schizophrenia. Explore Janet's discovery of the world and her life in Europe as her books are published to acclaim.

The true story of one of the richest women in America - heiress to the Woolworth fortune. She had vast wealth and seven husbands, but never found lasting love.

Three different, yet equally relentless women vie for the throne in 15th-century England.

A story of Lyudmila Pavlichenko, the most successful female sniper in history.

Emily, the daughter of Louis XIV's chief secretary, has a mathematical talent. But in the 18th century, science and woman are incompatible concepts. Having matured, the girl challenges both pundits and the whole society. Intimate passions, theater, cards are added to innate abilities... Emily's behavior outrages many. Only a person of high intelligence and great talent can pacify this fascinating nature. It was Voltaire. Science, art and love are intricately intertwined in the relationship between the great philosopher and his muse.

In 1933 Texas, a schoolteacher and aspiring writer meets a pulp fiction writer, and a relationship soon develops between the two, but it is doomed by his slavishly devotion to his ailing mother and insistence on his freedom.

Queen Victoria strikes up an unlikely friendship with a young Indian clerk named Abdul Karim.

An anthology series centering on famous feuds, including Bette Davis and Joan Crawford, and Truman Capote and the New York elite.

A chronicle of the life of 18th-century aristocrat Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, who was revered for her extravagant political and personal life.

The story of Dian Fossey, a scientist who came to Africa to study the vanishing mountain gorillas, and later fought to protect them.

Legendary performer Judy Garland arrives in London in the winter of 1968 to perform a series of sold-out concerts.

The film is based on the autobiographical book "Day Stars" published in 1959 by the Leningrad writer Olga Bergholz, who survived the most difficult years of the siege in the besieged city. It was during this period that she created some of her best works, including poems dedicated to the defense of Leningrad.

Having lost her parents to Stalin's purges, a girl returns from Soviet Union to her native Hungary to live with her Stalinist aunt.

The fictionalized life of singer Loretta Lynn, a girl who rose from humble beginnings to become a country music star in the 1960s/70s.

Mini-series about the the public and private lives of the later years of Queen Elizabeth I.

The early years of the reign of Elizabeth I of England and her difficult task of learning what is necessary to be a monarch.

Spurred by divine voices and visions, fifteenth century teen Joan d'Arc leads French forces against the English.

An elderly Margaret Thatcher talks to the imagined presence of her recently deceased husband as she struggles to come to terms with his death while scenes from her past life, from girlhood to British prime minister, intervene.

Biopic of the iconic French singer Édith Piaf. Raised by her grandmother in a brothel, she was discovered while singing on a street corner at the age of 19. Despite her success, Piaf's life was filled with tragedy.

Mini series depicting the turbulent and bloody reigns of Scottish monarchs Mary, Queen of Scots and her son King James VI of Scotland who became King James I of England and foiled the Gunpowder Plot.

Film about famous soviet actress Valentina Serova, wife of aviator Serov and poet Konstantin Simonov.

The film is based on the life of Marina Tsvetaeva, one of the most tragic and greatest poets of the 20th century. The authors follow her in Russia, then in immigration in Prague and Paris, and then her return to Russia where she committed a suicide a few month after her arrival.

In a Spain consumed by ambition and power, the future of an empire depends on one woman's state of mind.

In 20th-century colonial Kenya, a Danish baroness/plantation owner has a passionate love affair with a free-spirited big-game hunter.